Borussia Moenchengladbach vs FC Cologne – Preview and Prediction
Reeling club Borussia Monchengladbach (3-4-3, 12 points) will look to get out of their current rut as they square off with contending team FC Cologne (5-2-3, 18 points) in a 2016-2017 Bundesliga season game to be held at the Stadion im Borussia-Park on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Start Time and Streaming Info
The game starts at 9:30 a.m. ET. It can be viewed live online thru FuboTV.
Borussia Monchengladbach is on a five-game winless slide as the team has alternated losing and drawing in their last five outings.
Their most recent match resulted in a 0-3 rout in the hands of fourth-running team Hertha Berlin on the road at the Olympiastadion on Nov. 4, as per BBC Sport.
Head coach André Schubert’s squad was shut out by the capital city team’s defense while the hosts unleash a hat trick from Ivory Coast international Salomon Kalou.
Kalou netted the opening goal with a header in the 18th minute before adding to the lead in the 33rd, giving the hosts a 2-0 lead at the halftime break.
Monchengladbach was given a setback before halftime as German midfielder Christoph Kramer was sent off in the 39th minute after getting booked with a second yellow card for fouling Hertha’s Fabian Lustenberger.
Kalou scored his third goal with six minutes left before full-time to complete his team’s three-goal haul.
Meanwhile, Cologne was nipped by Eintracht Frankfurt, 0-1, on the road at the Commerzbank Arena on Nov. 5, via ESPN.
Serbian midfielder Mijat Gaćinović netted the lone goal of the contest early in the fifth minute with a header from the right side of the six-yard box to the bottom right corner of Cologne goalkeeper Timo Horn’s net. It held on as the winning goal after both sides failed to score for the rest of the match.
The loss was Cologne’s second in its last three matches as the team dropped to the sixth spot in the overall standings. It was also the Billy Goat’s fourth winless performance in their last six outings.
Prediction and Predicted Lineup
The predicted result is a 2-0 decision for Borussia Monchengladbach.
Borussia Monchengladbach starting lineup (3-4-1-2 formation): Sommer; Elvedi, Vestergaard, Jantschke; Herrmann, Strobl, Dahoud, Wendt; Hofmann; Stindl, Raffael
Cologne starting lineup (4-4-2 formation): Horn; Sorensen, Mavraj, Heintz, Hector; Risse, Hoger, Lehmann, Rausch; Modeste, Osako